Contents: March - April 2005
Features
The Gay Artist as Critic
When three poets and a novelist turned
their hand to nonfiction
Alfred Corn
C. A. Tripp’s Journey to Lincoln
Lewis Gannett
Unlocking Lincoln’s Sexuality
The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln
C. A. Tripp
Origins of the Kinsey Revolution
How he outwitted the code of silence and
got people to talk
David Steinberg
What Now for Marriage Equality?
Preserving and extending the Massachusetts
Sue Hyde
Listening to the “Yes on 36”
Voter
What led fair-minded Oregonians to ban
same-sex marriage?
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Diary of an Unassimilated Traveler
Queer interludes on a U.S. book tour just
before the election
Mattilda Sycamore
Breakthrough: The 1979 National March
It was the first time local groups across
the U.S. acted as one
Amin Ghaziani
The 1979 March’s Place in History
It anticipated, but didn’t create, a
national gay rights movement
John D’Emilio
Reviews
Judith Farr — The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Evelyn C. White
David Plante — American Ghosts
Thom Nickels
Will Fellows — A Passion to Preserve
Duncan Mitchel
Stephen Mitchell, translator — Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Richard Schneider, Jr.
Thomas Frank — What’s the Matter with Kansas?
Don Gorton
Peter Parker — Isherwood: A Life Revealed
Chris Freeman
Virginia Spencer Carr — Paul Bowles: A Life
Jim Nawrocki
Abha Dawesar — Babyji
Martha E. Stone
Didier Eribon — Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
John Garrison
JT LeRoy — Harold’s End
James Withers
Jonathan Caouette, director — Tarnation
Chris Freeman
Poems & Departments
Guest Opinion —Attention Liberal Shoppers!
Mark Morford
Correspondence
Poem —
“Truth Be Told...”
Charles Jensen
Poem —
“Clarification”
Aaron Smith
Artist’s Profile — Robert Irwin: Photographer of the
Sensory
Lester Strong
Poem —
“A Magazine of Bare, Naked Ladies”
Janis Butler Holm
International Spectrum — Ukraine: Is There Hope in Orange?
Tomasz Kitlinski
Bulletin Board
